0.17.1 (2026-07-03)

Features:

• [CAPI]
  • feat(api): version C ABI symbols for the 0.16 -> 0.17 limit change (#4951)

Fixed issues:

• [Validator]
  • fix: reject non-funcref tables/refs in call_indirect and call_ref (#4920)
• [WASI]
  • fix(wasi): reject symlink targets that resolve outside the preopen root (#4938)
• [WASI-Logging]
  • fix(plugin/wasi-logging): keep the default logger alive across instances
• [Common]
  • fix(common): build against fmt 8 and spdlog without callback_sink
  • fix(common): extend formatter compat to fmt 6 and spdlog 1.5
  • fix(common): build against fmt 12.2 where uint128_fallback was renamed
  • fix(common): honor format specs and preserve Char fill width in fmt<8 uint128 formatter fallback
  • fix(common): guard __has_include probes and include for std::move

Refactored:

• [Common]
  • refactor(common): move WASMEDGE_FMT_CONST to a dedicated fmt compat header
  • refactor(common): unify ErrInfo fmt formatters on the FmtCtx template pattern

CI:

• feat(ci): add static-lib build workflow for macOS arm64 (#4948)
• fix(ci): brew trust for wasmedge/llvm (#5079)
• ci: ignore gcov negative-hit parse errors in coverage build (#5062)
• ci: add fuzzer build to Ubuntu CI matrix (#5036)
• ci: remove unused packages in fedora rawhide (#5069)
• [dependabot]
  • ci(dependabot): bump codecov/codecov-action from 6.0.1 to 7.0.0 (#4943)
  • ci(dependabot): bump github/codeql-action from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2 (#4944)
  • ci(dependabot): bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.19.1 to 2.19.4 (#4890, #4899)
  • ci(dependabot): bump actions/checkout from 6.0.2 to 7.0.0 (#4925, #5042)
  • ci(dependabot): bump the docker group with 3 updates (#4898)
  • ci(dependabot): bump actions/cache from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#5083, #5084, #5085)
  • ci(dependabot): bump actions/setup-python from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 (#5082)
  • ci(dependabot): bump crazy-max/ghaction-chocolatey from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 (#5081)

Thank all the contributors who made this release possible!

Shen-Ta Hsieh(BestSteve), Yi-Ying He, dm4, hydai

If you want to build from source, please use WasmEdge-0.17.1-src.tar.gz instead of the zip or tarball provided by GitHub directly.